"UFC 97: Redemption" official fighter weigh-in results

The weigh-ins took place at the Bell Centre in Montreal and featured, among others, UFC middleweight champion and headliner Anderson Silva and his opponent, Thales Leites.

In front of a vocal gathering, Silva registered a slim 182 pounds. Leites used every ounce of the middleweight division’s limit, tipping the scales at 185 pounds.

Both fighters appeared confident in the face-off, and each left the stage without addressing the crowd.

UFC 97 is just the UFC’s second-ever event in Canada. Last year’s show, UFC 83 with Georges St. Pierre vs. Matt Serra II, set a UFC and North American MMA attendance record with 21,390 spectators. This year’s event proved another quick sellout, and today’s weigh-ins drew several thousand of those ticket-buyers.

The full results included:

MAIN CARD

Anderson Silva (182) vs. Thales Leites (185)

Chuck Liddell (206) vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua (206)

Cheick Kongo (232) vs. Antoni Hardonk (249)

Luis Cane (206) vs. Steve Cantwell (205)

Krzysztof Soszynski (204) vs. Brian Stann (206)

PRELIMINARY CARD

Vinicius Magalhaes (204) vs. Eliot Marshall (205)

Xavier Foupa-Pokam (185) vs. Denis Kang (185)

Jason MacDonald (186) vs. Nate Quarry (186)

Ed Herman (186) vs. David Loiseau (185)

David Bielkheden (157) vs. Mark Bocek (154)*

Ryo Chonan (171) vs. T.J. Grant (169)

Sam Stout (155) vs. Matt Wiman (155)

* – Bielkheden missed weight on his lone attempt on the scale. The lightweight did not attempt to weigh in without his fight shorts but was given an hour to lose the additional pound required to reach the 156-pound limit.

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